"punk like it was for other scenes. Here, it was like, 'There's only twenty people here, you can't really find a group to hate.'"" Charles R. Cross states that grunge was the ""... culmination of twenty years of punk rock"" development. Cross states that the bands most representing the grunge genre were Seattle bands Blood Circus, TAD, and Mudhoney and Sub Pop's Denver band The Fluid; he states that Nirvana, with its pop influences and blend of Sonic Youth and Cheap Trick, was lighter-sounding than bands like Blood Circus. Neil Young played a few concerts with Pearl Jam and recorded"
"Music of Washington (state) The U.S. state of Washington has been home to many popular musicians and several major hotbeds of musical innovation throughout its history. The largest city in the state, Seattle, is best known for being the birthplace of grunge, a type of rock and roll, during the mid-1980s, as well as a major contributor to the evolution of punk rock, indie music, folk, and hip-hop. Nearby Tacoma and Olympia have also been centers of influence on popular music. Several world-famous musicians have hailed from Washington. Bing Crosby, who was born in Tacoma in 1903 and raised in"
"scenes, including Minneapolis and Seattle. Seattle's local scene produced grunge music, a dark and brooding style inspired by hardcore, psychedelia, and alternative rock. With the addition of a more melodic element to the sound of bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains, grunge became wildly popular across the United States in 1991. Three years later, bands like Green Day, The Offspring, Rancid, Bad Religion, and NOFX hit the mainstream (with their respective then-new albums ""Dookie"", ""Smash"", ""Let's Go"", ""Stranger than Fiction"" and ""Punk in Drublic"") and brought the California punk scene exposure worldwide. Heavy metal is characterized"
"of ""unconventional tunings to bend otherwise standard pop songs completely out of shape."" With the addition of a ""melodic, Beatlesque element"" to the sound of bands like Nirvana, grunge became wildly popular across the United States. Grunge became commercially successful in the early 1990s, peaking between 1991 and 1994. Bands from cities in the U.S. Pacific Northwest especially Seattle, Washington, were responsible for creating grunge and later made it popular with mainstream audiences. The supposed Generation X, who had just reached adulthood as grunge's popularity peaked, were closely associated with grunge, the sound which helped ""define the desperation of (that)"
"1980s influenced grunge music, which rose to prominence around Seattle, United States, before impacting on popular music in the early 1990s. The Scientists relied on unorthodox bass-heavy rhythms and distorted guitars, the latter being a direct precursor to grunge. The term grunge was used by Salmon in the mid-1980s to describe The Scientists' sound, which he recalled for the audience in an Australian Broadcasting Corporation documentary series on Australian music, ""Long Way to the Top"", Episode 6: ""Gathering of the Tribes 1984-2000"" on 12 September 2001. Everett True writing for ""The Guardian"" in 2011 disputed that Seattle was the origin"
"many DIY (as well as legal) venues. While mostly underground and still in existence today, Denver's metal scene has often been neglected by the press. With the 1980-90s came a new generation of music; grunge, thrash and nineties pop. Denver embraced all of these genres without trouble, most notably grunge. Local band The Fluid had several releases on the Sub Pop Record Label during this time. Like Seattle and a number of other cities who experienced the grunge boom, Denver fostered the genre in the early nineties before it quickly died out after the fall of the band Nirvana. A"
"""The Loco-Motion"" which became the biggest selling single in Australia for the decade and quickly catapulted her to worldwide stardom. The first annual ARIA Music Awards were held in 1987. John Farnham and Crowded House were the most successful artists at the event. Grunge is a subgenre of alternative rock and a subculture that emerged during the in Australia and in the Pacific Northwest U.S. state of Washington. The early grunge movement in the US revolved around Seattle's independent record label Sub Pop and that region's underground music scene. By the early 1990s its popularity had spread, with grunge bands"
"Machine also blended funk & hip hop elements, creating subgenres of this style such as funk metal and rap metal. A subgenre of alternative rock, grunge bands picked up popularity for the early 1990s. Grunge music, and the culture marketed around it, was born out of the Pacific Northwest American states of Washington and Oregon in the 1980s. Artists such as Nirvana, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam brought alternative rock to popularity in 1991. However, many bands were uncomfortable with their success, and were equally suspicious of the grunge label. Nirvana whetted the public's appetite for more direct,"
"By the early 1990s, rock was dominated by commercialized and highly produced pop, rock, and ""hair metal"" artists, while MTV had arrived and promoted a focus on image and style. Disaffected by this trend, in the mid-1980s, bands in Washington state (particularly in the Seattle area) formed a new style of rock which sharply contrasted with the mainstream music of the time. The developing genre came to be known as ""grunge"", a term descriptive of the dirty sound of the music and the unkempt appearance of most musicians, who actively rebelled against the over-groomed images of popular artists. Grunge fused"
"as Queensrÿche and Metal Church gain popularity, while Seattle native Duff McKagan went on to massive success with Guns N' Roses after relocating to Los Angeles. But it was perhaps the early '90s grunge movement for which Seattle is best known from a musical perspective. During this time such acts as Mother Love Bone, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog, Alice in Chains, and Mudhoney (band) scored massive worldwide hits, and turned the musical tide from glam metal to a style that borrowed equally from garage rockers (the Sonics), punk (the Stooges), and '70s heavy metal (Black Sabbath)."
"successful grunge acts include Foo Fighters, which had a #1 album with ""Wasting Light"" (2011). Seattle is also home to newer alt-grunge-rock acts such as SixTwoSeven. Riot grrrl is a form of punk rock which arose in Olympia in the 1990s and was led by all-female acts like Bikini Kill, known for their militant feminism and raw, uncompromising sound. The genre never achieved mainstream success and soon died out, though stalwarts Sleater-Kinney did stick together and found themselves approaching mainstream audiences after the turn of the millennium. A new wave of the riot grrl movement began around 2010 with bands"
"at major mainstream rock stations. During 1991 and 1992, other grunge albums such as Pearl Jam's ""Ten"", Soundgarden's ""Badmotorfinger"" and Alice in Chains' ""Dirt"", along with the ""Temple of the Dog"" album featuring members of Pearl Jam and Soundgarden, became among the 100 top-selling albums. Major record labels signed most of the remaining grunge bands in Seattle, while a second influx of acts moved to the city in the hope of success. However, with the death of Kurt Cobain and the subsequent break-up of Nirvana in 1994, touring problems for Pearl Jam and the departure of Alice in Chains' lead"
"between the two groups helped inspire the look and sound of grunge, a term allegedly coined by Mark McLaughlin of the brief joke band Mr. Epp and the Calculations who gained some local notoriety. In 1985, two local bands began their careers, later become well-known icons of the era: The U-Men and Green River, the latter of which was the true beginning of grunge. Local music author Clark Humphrey has attributed the rise of grunge, in large part, to the scene's ""supposed authenticity"", to its status as a ""folk phenomenon, a community of ideas and styles that came up from"
"Grunge grew out of the Pacific Northwest U.S. state of Washington, particularly in Seattle and nearby towns. Prominent bands of this genre include Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains. Industrial metal combines elements of industrial music and heavy metal. It is usually centered around repetitive metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Prominent industrial metal groups include Rammstein, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, KMFDM, Fear Factory, Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie and Godflesh. Some musicians emerging from the death metal scene, such as Fear Factory, Nailbomb, Autokrator and Meathook Seed, also began to experiment with industrial."
"of these grunge bands prompted ""Rolling Stone"" to nickname Seattle ""the new Liverpool."" Major record labels signed most of the prominent grunge bands in Seattle, while a second influx of bands moved to the city in hopes of success. At the same time, critics asserted that advertising was co-opting elements of grunge and turning it into a fad. ""Entertainment Weekly"" commented in a 1993 article, ""There hasn't been this kind of exploitation of a subculture since the media discovered hippies in the '60s."" ""The New York Times"" compared the ""grunging of America"" to the mass-marketing of punk rock, disco, and"
"or became less visible. The death of Kurt Cobain in early 1994, as well as the touring problems for Pearl Jam (due to the band's much-publicized boycott of Ticketmaster), marked the decline of the genre. At the same time as the original grunge bands went into decline, major record labels began signing and promoting bands that were emulating the genre. The term post-grunge was coined to describe these bands, who emulated the attitudes and music of grunge, particularly thick, distorted guitars, but with a more radio-friendly commercially oriented sound. In 1995, former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl's new band, the Foo"
"the local scene into national fame. Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains and other grunge bands became bestselling groups; many of their earlier fans greeted this development with cries of selling out, and the bands themselves struggled with the irony of alternative rock bands entering mainstream pop culture. Seattle grunge as national fare ended abruptly in a few years, however, beginning with the suicide of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain in 1994. During the 1990s other forms of music were also springing up in the land of grunge, almost as a counter musical movement, including industrial bands such as Kill Switch...Klick,"
"major labels and came to incorporate diverse influences from jangle pop, punk-pop, alternative metal or hard rock. The term post-grunge was meant to be pejorative, suggesting that they were simply musically derivative, or a cynical response to an ""authentic"" rock movement. From 1994, former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl's new band, the Foo Fighters, helped popularize the genre and define its parameters. Some post-grunge bands, like Candlebox, were from Seattle, but the subgenre was marked by a broadening of the geographical base of grunge, with bands like Los Angeles' Audioslave, and Georgia's Collective Soul, who all cemented post-grunge as one of"
"again disbanded in 1977 and it was permanent. Mondo Bando has also made the Ranker list of most famous Seattle musical acts at the 111 spot. Electra Blue moved on to the Seattle Punk Scene and performed with Violent World for a while before relocating to San Francisco. The Pacific Northwest region – primarily Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia – has been host to a growing scene of Doom metal, Sludge metal and Stoner metal since the 1990s, influenced by the geographical origin of grunge music and a sound pioneered in part by Washington band The Melvins. Common visual themes"
"initially referred to as ""The Seattle Sound"" until its rise to popularity in the early 1990s. Grunge featured a sludgy, murky guitar sound that synthesized heavy metal and punk rock. Promoted largely by Seattle indie label Sub Pop, grunge bands were noted for their thrift store fashion which favored flannel shirts and combat boots suited to the local weather. Early grunge bands Soundgarden and Mudhoney found critical acclaim in the U.S. and UK, respectively. By the end of the decade, a number of alternative bands began to sign to major labels. While early major label signings Hüsker Dü and The"
"hardcore on grunge is the impact that the Los Angeles hardcore punk band Black Flag had on grunge. Black Flag's 1984 record ""My War"", on which the band combined heavy metal with their traditional sound, made a strong impact in Seattle. Mudhoney's Steve Turner commented, ""A lot of other people around the country hated the fact that Black Flag slowed down ... but up here it was really great ... we were like 'Yay!' They were weird and fucked-up sounding."" Turner explained grunge's integration of metal influences, noting, ""Hard rock and metal was never that much of an enemy of"
"Heep and Sir Lord Baltimore. This scene is also known as """"Hellhound sound"""" for being closely related to the late Hellhound Records, who signed with many important bands of the scene like Saint Vitus, Internal Void, Iron Man, Revelation, Wretched and Unorthodox. Other notable bands include Evoken, Spirit Caravan, Earthride, and The Hidden Hand. The Pacific Northwest region – primarily Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia – has been host to a growing scene of doom, sludge, and stoner metal since the 1990s. It is influenced by the geographical origin of grunge music and a sound pioneered in part by Washington"
"and interesting punk and post-punk scene also developed in Perth, Western Australia. Bands such as The Victims and Cheap Nasties, spawned icons of the Australian music scene such as Dave Faulkner and James Baker, who formed one of the most popular Australian bands of the 1980s, the power-pop band Hoodoo Gurus, and the legendary Kim Salmon, who formed the Scientists, an influence on bands such as Mudhoney and The Jesus Lizard. Kim Salmon claims to have been the first person to use the term grunge to describe music. Kim Salmon and James Baker later once again collaborated in the underground"
"earliest recordings were done on the Trap label, owned by Greg Sage of the Wipers. Courtney Love lived in the Napalm Beach band house in 1981. Napalm Beach Napalm Beach is an American punk rock band from Portland, Oregon. One of the longest-running punk bands in the U.S., they are credited by some as being early innovators of the grunge sound. Nicholas Pell, writing for the ""Portland Mercury"" said ""a huge influence on the grunge and alternative rock of the 1990s, Napalm Beach never had the name recognition of other Portland bands like Poison Idea or the Wipers."" Napalm Beach"
"Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl's new band, the Foo Fighters, helped popularize the genre and define its parameters. Some post-grunge bands, like Candlebox, were from Seattle, but the subgenre was marked by a broadening of the geographical base of grunge, with bands like Los Angeles' Audioslave, and Georgia's Collective Soul and beyond the US to Australia's Silverchair and Britain's Bush, who all cemented post-grunge as one of the most commercially viable subgenres of the late 1990s. Although male bands predominated post-grunge, female solo artist Alanis Morissette's 1995 album ""Jagged Little Pill"", labelled as post-grunge, also became a multi-platinum hit. Post-grunge morphed"
"and a desire for freedom. A number of factors contributed to grunge's decline in prominence. During the , many grunge bands broke up or became less visible. Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, labeled by ""Time"" as ""the John Lennon of the swinging Northwest"", appeared unusually tortured by success and struggled with an addiction to heroin before he died by suicide at the age of 27 in 1994. The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word ""grunge"": In audio engineering, the term ""dirty"" or ""fuzzy"" describes ""the opposite of clear, clean sound. A dirty tone would have some amount of noise, distortion, or overdrive"
"appearing in California, then emerging in other parts of the United States and in Australia, building strong followings and signing major record deals. Mark Arm, the vocalist for the Seattle band Green River—and later Mudhoney—stated that the term had been used in Australia in the mid-1980s to describe bands such as King Snake Roost, The Scientists, Salamander Jim, and Beasts of Bourbon. Arm used grunge as a descriptive term rather than a genre term, but it eventually came to describe the punk/metal hybrid sound of the Seattle music scene. C Several Australian bands, including The Scientists, Cosmic Psychos and Feedtime,"
"culture in Seattle and is the neighborhood most closely associated with the grunge scene from the early 1990s, although most of the best-known music venues of that era were actually located slightly outside the neighborhood. The music scene has transformed since those days and now a variety of genres (electronica, rock, punk, folk, salsa, hip hop and trance) are represented. The neighborhood figures prominently in nightlife and entertainment, with many bars hosting live music and with numerous fringe theatres. Most of the Hill's major thoroughfares are dotted with coffeehouses, taverns and bars, and residences cover the gamut from modest motel-like"
"Green River, Screaming Trees, L7, The Gits, Hole, 7 Year Bitch, and TAD helped to define the grunge sound. An example of the lower cost production approach is Mudhoney; even after the band signed to Warner Music, ""[t]rue to [the band's] indie roots ... [they are] ... probably one of the few bands that would have to fight [their label] to record for a lower budget rather than a higher one."" Steve Albini was another important influence on the grunge sound. Albini prefers to be called a ""recording engineer"", because he believes that putting record producers in charge of recording"
"Music of Seattle Because Seattle is Washington's largest city, the music of Seattle has long played a major role in the music of Washington, in genres of alternative rock that included grunge, and major bands like Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden and Pearl Jam. Seattle remains home to several influential bands, labels, and venues. Seattle's music history begins in the mid-19th century, when the first European settlers arrived. In 1909, amidst the boosterism engendered by the city's first world's fair, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, the Seattle City Council adopted ""Seattle, the Peerless City"" (words by Arthur O. Dillon; music by Glenn"
"area) formed a new style of rock which sharply contrasted with the mainstream music of the time. The developing genre came to be known as ""grunge"", a term descriptive of the dirty sound of the music and the unkempt appearance of most musicians, who actively rebelled against the over-groomed images of other artists. Grunge fused elements of hardcore punk and heavy metal into a single sound, and made heavy use of guitar distortion, fuzz and feedback. The lyrics were typically apathetic and angst-filled, and often concerned themes such as social alienation and entrapment, although it was also known for its"
"releasing a 7"" single through No Patience records, potentially with an album to follow later in 2015. Grong Grong is considered to be a seminal influence on noise rock. Grong Grong was also one of the first bands to refer to the term grunge. Grong Grong was also considered to be crucial to the Australian ""Swamp Rock"" genre that later influenced/mutated into the Black Eye scene in Sydney and is a major contributor to the ""Pigfuck"" sound popularised in the US. Grong Grong (band) Grong Grong are a punk rock band from Adelaide, Australia Formed in 1983 by singer Michael"
"in the signal."" In July 1987, the ""Dry as a Bone"" EP by Green River was released by the independent Seattle record company Sub Pop, being described by Bruce Pavitt on the Sub Pop catalogue as ""ultra-loose grunge"". Although the word ""grunge"" has been used to describe bands since the 1960s, this was the first association of grunge with the grinding, sludgy sound of Seattle. It is expensive and time consuming to get a recording to sound clean, so for those northwestern bands just starting out it was cheaper for them to leave the sound dirty and just turn up"